Morning journal and courier., 1887-02-09
AMONG THE COLLEG1ANs.

Phi Beta Kappa Course Lecture To-
 Night-The Results of the Chess
 Tournament Thus Far-Temporary
 Changes in Boating Affairs.
 The pictures of the football team are now on sale.
 Taft 'S9 S., who sprained the fragments of his heart while praeticing in the gymnasium Saturday, has been obliged to leave for home.
 A double quartette from the G1ee club, consisting of Brown, Crehore, Diehl, Gen. ger, Hinckle, Raymond, Sage and Underhill, took part in the Hartford alumni banquet last evening.
 In the Phi Retta Kappa course this even ing the Hon. Daniel H. Chamberlain, ILL D., will speak on Education in the Southern States" The lecture will take place in Lino- mia Hall, and will undoubtedly draw large number.
 In the chess tournament Carlton and Kirk ham have played the finale in Glass I, and Kirkham has succeeded in winning first place, and is thus entitled to the medal. In Class II the following four contestants yet remain: Copley '87, Ayers '88, Wylie 'S9 and Reed '89.
 Caldwell '87 is stroking the Varsity for the present during the absence of Stewart
 
 count of Captain Buchanan's training with the Varsity, Mosle has been appointed by him as sub-captain.
 The nine began field practice in the base ball house yesterday.
 At meeting of the Kent club Monday evening the following subject was discussed: Resolved-"That the system of open constit- uencies should be adopted in the United States" Affirmative, Shig man 'SS and Wolfe '87; negative, Blakely 8S and Stewart 'S8.
 R. J. Cook '76 will be rendered banquet ill New Y York February 19 by the Yale alum nj at the Brunswick Hotel.
 At a recent meeting of the Second Glee club Romaine '87 was elected president and manager, and together with Williams 'S9 will make out all the programmes.
 The '86 album is in view at Thompson's bookstore, where it can be viewed by seniors who are desirous of seeing the model of the '67 album.
 Professor Hoppin of the Art school deliv- cred his weekly address on Egyptian archi- lecture in the Art school yesterday after noon. Afber alluding to the obelisk and It's value in breaking the monotonous character of Egyptian scenery, as well as it's value Tn an artistic point, he said of the one set up in Central Park: EWithout disparaging the bold and skilful sailor who transported it, while am glad we should possess one of these most antique monuments, 8 finger post of history, yet it is clearly an aesthetic, if not moral, wrong to remove them from Egyptian soil and compel them to stand sol itary in public places of busy nations to be stared at by the unsympathetic eyes of new ages. They are wholly out of their natural environment Seeing it the other day under freezing January sky with snowy landscape around and few bare trees, I was struck dismally with the incongruity of the whole thing-a 'sun ray' under cold northern sky; and l agree also with the judgment of architects that the obelisk should have been set up on plain or level site, as it stood originally, and not on an ele- vation such as the graywacke knoll in Gen. tral Park, which destroys it's architectural beauty and character. Surely the Egyptian goddess Safekh presiding over books and the founding of monuments must be gravely offended at this violation of her ancient rules whereby she laid the bases of things truly and ftly. But the most deplorable fact after all is that the frost of our ungenia1 cline is fast destroy ing it. The obelisk also which has been erected ou the Victoria embankment in London is dwarfed amid the immense piles of the Par liament houses and modern masonry and monuments by which it's slender shaft is sur rounded, so that it were better to leave these old things in their original places-better for the present to try to excel the past in it's works if it can, rather than disturb or use them over again in inharmonious relations" The lecture was one of special interest, and was a rare treat. Of the Egyptians, he said they did not comprehend nature in art as subtly as the Greeks, but were great archi- tects, and for them to have put up slight and fanciful temples under sunshine that deep ened and darkened all things from it's inten- sity, Clark from excessive light" was not in the conception of these grand and simple artists. They made the abodes of their gods, as the halls of their dead, awful with gloom and uncertain mystery.